Azure Blob Storage - capacity

Question

I am trying to create Azure blob storage 10 TB for storing videos. When I create container it automatically creates the storge container without the size option

Answer 1

Hi,

Azure blob storage will scale automatically upto 5PiB of storage. You do not need to provision the size of the container upfront.

If your looking at reserved capacity pricing this is only done in 100TB increments which would be $1746.50 per month. Which is substantially more expensive than the $215.04 per month for just 10TB.

I hope this helps. If you need more information please comment below.

Answer 2

Just to add to Thomas' answer you can see these limits at the following page:

Scalability and performance targets for Blob storage

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/scalability-targets#scale-targets-for-blob-storage

Also, I would recommend you look at archiving data (as it lowers your costs):

Estimate the cost of archiving data

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/archive-cost-estimation

"The archive tier is an offline tier for storing data that is rarely accessed. The archive access tier has the lowest storage cost. However, this tier has higher data retrieval costs with a higher latency as compared to the hot, cool and cold tiers.

This article explains how to calculate the cost of using archive storage and then presents a few example scenarios."